CV, Publications, and Talks

Selected Publications

• Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration – Common Threads Press, published 16 February 2024 (click to purchase)
• ‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art – History Today, 18 January 2024 (click to read)
• Book review of Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen – Dress, published 23 May 2023 (click to read)
• ‘‘This Work In Hand My Friends May Have”: Finding Female Ministers in Alternative Sources’ – Quaker Studies, published 12 December 2022 (click to read)
• ‘Workbox’ – KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, published 14 April 2022 (click to read)
• ‘”I plunge headlong into disaster”: Unstitching Agnes Richter’s Jacket’ – The Polyphony, published 2 September 2021 (click to read)
• ‘Plays, Plague, and Pouches: The Role of the Outside in Early Modern English Plague Remedies’ – Journal of Early Modern Studies, published 29 March 2021, co-authored with Edward B.M. Rendall (click to read)
• ‘“Black-works, white-works, colours all”: Finding Susanna Perwich in her Seventeenth-Century Embroidered Cabinet’ – Art Herstory blog, published 26 May 2020 (click to read)
• ‘“A Cunning Skill Did Lurk”: Susanna Perwich and the Mysteries of a Seventeenth-Century Needlework Cabinet’ – Textile History, November 2018 issue (click to read)
• ‘Stitching History: LACMA’S Guatemalan and Mexican Samplers’ – LACMA blog, published 21 August 2017 (click to read)

Radio Appearances and Podcasts

• ‘Stitching Stories’ on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking, aired 27 February 2024 (listen here)
• ‘A Lively Tudor World’ on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking, aired 4 July 2023 (listen here)
• BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, aired 17 July 2023 (listen here)
• ‘Introducing the New Generation Thinkers 2023’ on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking, aired 4 April 2023 (listen here)
• A Room of Your Own – ‘Isabella Rosner’ (listen here)
• The Academic Life – ‘Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration’ (listen here)
• The Good Robot – ‘Isabella Rosner on Needlework and History’s Hidden Technologies’ (listen here)
• Fiber Talk – ‘Fiber Talk with Isabella Rosner’ (listen here)
• NeedleXChange – ‘Dr. Isabella Rosner | Highlighting Historical Embroidery’ (listen here)
• Thee Quaker Podcast – ‘Weird Quaker Names Go Viral on Twitter’ (listen here)
• Travelling Sisterhood of Art Historian‪s‬ podcast – ‘Textiles’ (listen here)
• Coping in Confinement podcast – ‘Stitching: An Interview with Isabella Rosner’ (listen here)

Selected Talks

• ‘Stitching Friends from London to Philadelphia: Elizabeth and Ann Marsh’s Transatlantic Quaker Needlework’ – talk given at the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, 2 April 2022
• ‘Quaker Schoolgirl Needlework in Seventeenth-Century London’ – talk given at the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, 12 February 2022
• Virtual Dialogue with Melinda Watt – talk given at the Decorative Arts Trust, 10 February 2022
• ‘”She once did a pretty deal of fine Needle-works of many Colours”: Quaker Schoolgirl Stitching in Seventeenth-Century London’ – talk given at the Institute of Historical Research, 16 November 2021
• ‘Stitching History: Telling the Stories of the Past and Today’ – talk given at the Woodlawn and Pope-Leighey House, 20 May 2021
• ‘Pictures of men, birds, beasts and flow’rs’: Susanna Perwich and the Mysteries of LACMA’s Seventeenth-Century Needlework Cabinet  – talk given at Association for Art History conference, 16 April 2021
• ‘Sampling Samplers: Sartorial Experiments in the 20th and 21st Centuries’ – talk given at Sartorial Society seminar series, 11 February 2021
• ‘“Delight Bower of Bliss!”: Examining Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia Wax and Shellwork Shadow Boxes Through a Quaker Lens’ – talk given at Edinburgh College of Art’s Material and Visual Culture Seminar Series, 11 November 2020
• ‘Marsh-ing to the Beat of a Different Drum: The Move of Quaker Needlework from England to Philadelphia in the Long Eighteenth Century’ – talk given at the Institute of Historical Research’s Education in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar, 7 March 2020
• ‘“Grave Hogen Mogen, High and Mighty Frogs!”: The Mysteries of Seventeenth-Century Frog Pouches Fashion’ – talk given at the ‘Fashioning The Early Modern Courtier’ conference, St John’s College, Cambridge University, 16 May 2018